Whaddya gonna do? Are you going to double down on the lies your ads have been telling about the President’s relaxation of some welfare-to-work requirements at the request of Republican governors, or are you going to mush up those claims back to some semblance of plausible deniability?

If you were gutsy, you’d say you and your running mate would no longer tell lies in your campaign, and that you were ashamed of those he told last night in his speech to the Republican National Convention.

I know. Silly me.

What you’ve really gotta do is try to show the audience that you really don’t feel as though you’re entitled to the job, even though you obviously do. You have to pretend it would be the most humbling thing in your life if the American people elected you to the top job in the country, even though you wouldn’t recognize humility if it bit you on the nose.

Or you could take the speech Charlie Pierce wrote for you and use it verbatim. Now that would liven things up!